Handbook of Meta-Research

Edited by Alis Oancea, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Research Policy, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Gemma E. Derrick, Associate Professor of Research Policy and Culture, Centre for Higher Education Transformations, University of Bristol, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Independent Researcher and Writer and Xin Xu, Departmental Lecturer in Higher/Tertiary Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK

‘This is a book populated by many of my favorite colleagues in the field of research on research. Here, they position key facets of our joint scholarly and real-world project of examining, and being part of, contemporary academia. The book is exemplary for doing multidisciplinary meta-research across the globe with professionalism and care. It provokes self-reflexivity because its authors are deeply engaged, rather than disinterested. The Handbook of Meta-Research is a book to cherish!’

• Contents:1 Meta-research as discipline, field, or spectrum 1Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin Xu2 Map of the Handbook of Meta-Research 12Gemma E. Derrick, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Alis Oancea and Xin XuPART I THE PUBLIC VALUE OF RESEARCH3 Academic values and meta-research 18J. Britt Holbrook4 Responsible research and innovation 32Richard Woolley, Paula Otero-Hermida, Irene Monsonís-Payá andMagdalena Wicher5 Value and the public humanities 46Zoe Hope Bulaitis6 Hard-to-assess research-impact nexuses in the humanities, arts, andsocial sciences 55Alis Oancea7 STEMM academics’ understandings of ‘societal value’ in the context ofthe UK impact agenda 62Eliel Cohen8 Sociology in the impact agenda: is there room for public sociology? 73Silje Maria Tellmann and Reetta MuhonenPART II POLICY AND GOVERNANCE OF RESEARCH9 Changing research policy and practice with evidence: the relationshipsbetween meta-research and its stakeholders 90Steven Hill10 Global and national science systems: synergies and tensions 104Simon Marginson11 The role of funders in shaping the UK research landscape 116Frédérique Bone and Beverley Sherbon12 Mapping the field of evidence production and use 133Kathryn Oliver, Euan Adie and Annette Boaz13 Methods development in evidence synthesis: a dialogue betweenscience and society 146James Thomas14 Meta-research and researcher evaluation 159Andrew Plume15 Research evaluation in China: policy, practice and prospects 172Xin XuPART III KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN META-RESEARCH16 Changing research publication practices and the rise of research metrics 191Thed van Leeuwen17 Diversification of knowledge production actors (includinguniversity-industry partnerships) 204Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos-Peñuela18 Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? Discussing newanalytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists 215Rodrigo Costas, Carmen Corona-Sobrino and Nicolás Robinson-García19 De-legitimising the social sciences and humanities through peer review 235Gemma E. Derrick and Tony Ross-Hellauer20 Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives 251David Mills and Kelsey Inouye21 A bibliometric study of bibliometric studies at South African universities 263Nelius Boshoff and Similo Ngwenya22 Diabetes prevention or treatment: what is researched and what ismentioned online? 279Fereshteh DidegahPART IV RESEARCH CULTURES AND CAREERS23 The state-of-the-art of research on science research careers 293Carolina Cañibano, Richard Woolley, Eric J. Iversen and Carmen Corona-Sobrino24 Meaning and purpose in academic research: researchers of the 1990s vs 2010s 309Gerlese S. Åkerlind25 Post-PhD careers: mobility and ‘research’ in the non-academic arena 322Lynn McAlpine26 Hiding in plain sight: research management as a practice and professionin the scholarly ecosystem 332Julie Bayley and Kieran Fenby-Hulse27 Stratification and cumulative advantages in academia: gender andnational differences 341Jens Peter Andersen28 The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research 355Richard WatermeyerIndex